Film Record: Brookside

Still from Brookside in Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 540.

Date produced: 1941

Filmmaker(s):

Robert P. Kehoe

Languages:

Length:

250 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Sound:

With music on disc.

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1941 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"The very great faculty of Robert P. Kehoe for seeing natural beauty and giving it an individual and entirely original expression in film enables him, in Brookside, to reach a new height in cinematography, because he has added to that faculty an attention to the business of continuity. Like Tennyson's Brook, Mr. Kehoe"s film starts to go somewhere, keeps going and gets there, while we who watch the going see, by the brookside, some of the loveliest — but tripodless — footage of water, flowers and woodland that any landscapist could want to come by. The final sequence of Mr. Kehoe's picture has a tragic tenderness that is almost too poignant, since he has filmed the funeral progress down the darting brook of a lustrous butterfly that ventured too close to the water and was sucked into it. With wings outspread, the little body goes past us into '"yesterday's ten thousand years" as the film ends." Movie Makers, Dec. 1941, 565.

Resources:

The film was available in the ACL's Club Film Library.

Subjects:

• Animals
•      Insects
•           Butterflies
• Nature
•      Water
•           Bodies of Water

Genre:

• Nature

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1944 and 1950: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the Hartford Cinema Club in 1944: Hartford, CT
• Screened by the Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club in 1944: Indianapolis, IN
• Screened by the Cine Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1945: Schenectady, N.Y.
• Screened by the Philadelphia Cinema Club in 1946: Philadelphia, PA
• Screened by the Tacoma Amateur Movie Club in 1946: Tacoma, WA

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